Category: Exploitation

Atrocities Of The Orient

523. ATROCITIES Of THE ORIENT (1959-USA). World Ward: the Japanese take over the Philippines, disrupting the people’s peaceful lives and wreaking havoc everywhere. When they’re not grunting grotesquely or screaming “Banzai!” the ruthless laps are performing every atrocity imaginable: looting, torturing, raping, burning, bombing, bayonetting and beheading. They destroy entire villages, humiliate prisoners, andÑjust to […]

Mondo Pazzo

3021. MONDO PAZZO (1963-ltaly) COLOR. This eye-popping documentary is admittedly a follow-up to the shocking “Mondo Cane” of the previous year. It will take you on an around-the-world tour which spotlights the oddest and most unusual customs, rituals and practices among diverse cultures. To describe these activities as bizarre is no understatement. During the celebration […]

You’ve Ruined Me Eddie; Touch Of Flesh, The

3040. YOU’VE RUINED ME EDDIE! (The Touch Of Flesh) (1958-USA). Joan Denton is quite a hot little number. One of her favorite pastimes is dancing around her bedroom to wild and crazy music while garbed in a skimpy shorty nightgown. Another is sex. Joan has just graduated high school and has spent her summer before […]

Devil’s Joint, The

2723. THE DEVIL’S JOINT (1969-USA). This mind-blowing compilation film not only consists of portions of various classic “reefer scare” movies made between the 1920s and 1940s. It also places these films into historical context as it shows how they were produced in order to brainwash audiences about the use and effect of smoking marijuana. In […]

Devil’s Sleep, The

2499. THE DEVIL’S SLEEP (1949-USA). With LITA GREY CHAPLIN, TIMOTHY FARRELL, GEORGE EIFERMAN (MR. AMERICA OF 1948). This low-budget but high-spirited cornball melodrama is a self-proclaimed “sensational expose of the sleeping pill racket.” The setting is Hometown USA, where hopped-up high school students are slipping into juvenile delinquency. The adolescent dope addicts are living in […]

Bad Girls Do Cry

2437. BAD GIRLS DO CRY (1954-USA). Directed by SID MELTON. Sally Downs is an unsophisticated small town girl newly arrived in the brg bad city. This statuesque blonde quickly finds a job as a waitress in a greasy spoon, bul it seems as if the man who is her very firsL customer sees a different […]

Gun Girls

2426. GUN GIRLS (1956-USA). With TIMOTHY FARRELL. Sit back, nibble on some popcorn and get ready for yet another unabashedly cornball melodrama that neatly fits into the “so-hokey-it’s-hilarious” movie genre. This one is a chronicle of what is presented as a new phenomenon of modern urban society: ample-bosomed “girl delinquents” who wear light dresses and […]

Assassin Of Youth

2408. ASSASSIN OF YOUTH (1937-USA). Directed by ELMER CLIFTON. Given the title and subject matter of this exploitation feature, one might expect it to be crammed with cornball sermonizing and heavy-duty littering. However, it is anything but your average funny-sleazy film depicting the evils of smoking marijuana or some other such “depraved” activity. You would, […]

Honky Tonk Girl

2409. HONKY TONK GIRL (1941-USA). This mind-boggingly hilarious cinematic “expo begins with what amounts to an unintentionally funny sermon. “There never was and never will another picture like this presented in our city,” the viewer is told. Its story is a “dramatic thunderbolt that “ridicules false modesty” and “exposes the shame of misguided youth.” Its […]

Test Tube Babies

2330. TEST TUBE BABIES (1948-USA). Here is another laugh-out-loud example of movie making so inept that it is unintentionally hilarious. It is the saga of George and Kathy, a young couple deeply in love. They get married and eventually decide to start a family. The only trouble is, Kathy cannot become pregnant. All of her […]